Sweetscent
Pluchea odoratanative · Hill Country
Sweetscent is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–6 ft tall and 3 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms pink and purple in Jul–Oct. Good for butterflies and nectar insects.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–6 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Bloom
- Jul–Oct · pink, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on brackish, clay, moist, saline
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesSan Antonio Prairie
628 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.